Home to the Highlands

by Jessica Eliot

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440131049
• ISBN13: 9780440131045
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
• Length: 221 Pages

Customer Reviews

Lady Jewel Thief Blackmailed Into Romance!

Louise Marchese was a jewel thief. Like her father before her, she was a criminal with a conscience, only robbing the very rich of their most heavily insured treasures. But one dark, stormy night Louise hesitates just a fraction of a second too long, pausing to help a homeless man get out of the rain in the midst of a terrible mid-summer storm. The bolt of lightning that illuminates her kindness also trips the surveillance cameras outside the estate of the fabulously wealthy Alec MacDougal. Alec has billions, and he hardly needs the few diamonds missing from his South Florida estate. But his beloved grandmother is dying back at the ancestral home in Scotland. Her one wish is to see Alec married, but the billionaire values his independence and does not trust gold-digging females. So he blackmails the stunning, dark-haired Michele into posing as his fiancee for a few days in the Highlands. This is an early eighties romance, and it shows in how the hero treats the heroine. Even when he's escorting her to the police station, Alec routinely holds open doors and pulls back chairs for his jewel thief. When the charges are dropped, Louise goes from sarcastic wisecracks to sulky silence to sound sleep on the billionaire's private jet. It's only when they arrive in Scotland that she realizes this is no masquerade -- Alec expects to bed her nightly until they part company! The sham romance soon spirals out of control, as Louise discovers her blood stirs more when she's kissing Alec than when she's plotting to escape his home. But when a treacherous partner in crime pops up out of nowhere, can Louise make a clean break with her shady past?